We’ve all heard of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), with his swirling free-moving colourful paintings which it is astonishing to think were created 0ver 60 years ago. Less known is Lee Krasner (1908-1984), the artist who married Pollock in 1945 – a relatively short marriage with Pollock dying in an alcohol-related car accident in 1956 when he […]
What is the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Is it something for good, or for evil in the future? Are we on the verge of a new industrial revolution? On the plus side, we have seen how cuddly cute robots can make life at home easier; on the more sinister side we have seen […]
The Barbican Centre in London has red kayaks inside, outside and moving within it. Located in the aptly named “Curve”, ‘Slow Movement’ is a specially-designed installation with a kayak moving slowly along the floor of the 90m long space as if on water, with two videos running, one at each end of the space. The […]
Also at the Barbican…. The Curve is a “left over” space which the Barbican has tried to run as a long thin arts space for the last 30 years. It sometime works; it sometimes doesn’t. The Turkish artist Ayse Erkmen has taken the space and made it work with an exhibition called “Intervals”. Eleven scenic […]
The two floors of the Barbican Art Gallery have gone “pop” with an exhibition of Pop Art and Design with many exhibits from the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, supplemented here by British artists such as Peter Blake. There are many of the classics that we all know and love from that era of design, […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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